Customize your terminal prompt
July 16th, 2006 | Filed under Code snippets, Bash scriptsI’m probably going to be embarrassed about this post in the morning, but I re-figured out how to customize my terminal prompt, and I got something that I like which I’ll post here for the next time I get a new computer and have to Google the whole thing up again.
In ~/.bashrc (Mac: ~/.bash_profile), add:
function prompt
{
local GREEN="\[\033[0;32m\]"
local CYAN="\[\033[0;36m\]"
local GRAY="\[\033[0;37m\]"
local BLUE="\[\033[0;34m\]"
export PS1="${GREEN}\u${CYAN}@${BLUE}\h ${CYAN}\w${GRAY}
$ "
}
prompt
Then:
$ source .bashrc
Which makes it look something like this:
gina@amelia ~/Documents
$
But with pretty colors.
That is all.